Kind of a random post here. Lots of small things have been keeping us busy these last couple of weeks. With warmer temperatures outside we've been spending lots of our time at the playgrounds. My kiddos all love to swing. I think Grace would be happy to swing 7 hours a day if we let her.
Grace recently lost her other front tooth. Now she talks a little bit different and she has the cutest smile. I'm not in a hurry for the new ones to come in.
With her $1 from the tooth fairy she had a total of $4 saved up. She had her eye on a sparkly hula hoop at Walmart for a while now, but she was still one buck short. She asked if she could earn the extra dollar. So for one whole day Grace did all of the dishes including unloading and loading. It was worth it! Turns out she is really good at it too. There was a competition at school that she totally won.
Unfortunately, will all of this warm weather (85 and HUMID) lots and lots of bugs have come out. Poor Grace loves to be outside, and they really love to bite her. We've been dealing with lots of bites on her legs for a couple of weeks now. So much itching and misery. I've tried spraying her with bug spray, but so far no dice. A couple of days ago I got a call from the school nurse. One of her bites had gotten huge. It was red, painful and hard to the touch. I knew it needed a trip to the doc. Sure enough it was infected and needed a good round of antibiotics. Thankfully, it has almost completely healed. We need to step up our bug spray efforts for her.
On Thursday I was able to go see Neil perform "5 Little Monkeys" at his school. He did such a great job in front of a big audience. I was really surprised that he even said his line quite clearly. He made such a cute monkey! I'm so glad for his new school and how much he is improving.
Yesterday, we took our car into a shop to get looked at. We knew something was wrong, and sure enough it won't be a cheap fix. :( I guess it's better than getting a new car. Neil and I waited in the van while daddy talked to them about it.
Last night Chris went backpacking with the scouts so the kids and I are on our own. Hopefully we'll still get to do something later today when he gets home. For now we are just going to veg...
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all of those bug bites sound miserable!! Poor thing! hope you guys are able to figure something out that works a bit better.
and that's awesome about Neil's monkey performance. I was up on the stand yesterday for the primary father's day song because Bennett refused to go up on his own. one of these days! ;)
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